![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Crossways - W. B. Yeats
LibriVox recording of Crossways, by W. B. Yeats. Read by Kasper Nijsen. The first collection by Irish-born poet William Butler Yeats. Many decades before his mysterious and austere Modernist verse earned him a nobel prize, Yeats achieved renown as one of the last major poets in the High Romantic tradition. These poems showcase his Celtic imagination, his love for Irish folk-tales, and his commitment to the Romantic ideal of love...
Keywords: librivox; Yeats; love poetry; romantic; fin-de-siècle; nineteenth century
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| Abandoned - W. Clark Russell
LibriVox recording of Abandoned, By William Clark Russell. We meet Miss Lucretia Lane as she is dressing for her marriage to Captain Francis Reynolds of the British Merchant Service. Though he loves her truly, she has severe misgivings. She goes through with the wedding in spite of this, but refuses to live with her new husband, and cannot be enticed or cajoled to do so. Then on the day the Captain is scheduled to ship out, she receives word that he has been gravely injured and his dying request...
Keywords: Audiobook; LibriVox; Clark Russell; Captain Francis Reynolds; British Merchant Service; Sea Stories; Lucretia Lane; literature; fiction; adventure
Downloads: 129,443
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| The Frozen Pirate - W. Clark Russell
LibriVox recording of The Frozen Pirate, by W. Clark Russell. Sailing adventure with storms, icebergs, shipwrecks, treasure, and the reawakening of a pirate frozen in suspended animation for nearly fifty years. (Summary by P. Cunningham) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats or languages (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording...
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; adventure; fiction; sea stories
Downloads: 11,907
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| The Mystery of the Ocean Star - A Collection of Maritime Sketches - W. Clark Russell
LibriVox recording of The Mystery of the Ocean Star - A Collection of Maritime Sketches, by W. Clark Russell. This is a collection of short stories of mystery and romance, set at sea, in the times of the great sea voyages. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; sea; ocean; seafaring; mystery
Downloads: 1,299 |
| The Quest of the Silver Fleece - W. E. B. Du Bois
LibriVox recording of BOOK TITLE, by AUTHOR. Read by AJai Hilton & Richard Kilmer. The Quest of the Silver Fleece is a story of romance, race economics and politics set around the 1900s. Here, a traditionally educated boy and an unschooled “swamp girl” each begin a journey toward love, ambition and redemption in the “Old South.” (Summary by AJai Hilton) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please...
Keywords: Librivox; audiobook; fiction; romance; racism; politics
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| Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri, Series One - W. M. Flinders Petrie
LibriVox recording of Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri, Series One, by W. M. Flinders Petrie. Read by Timothy Ferguson. Brief, and in some cases incomplete, stories of magic from ancient Egypt. (Summary by Timothy Ferguson) For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org. M4B audiobook of Complete Book
Keywords: LibriVox; audiobook; History; egyptian history; Papyri; Flinders Petrie
Downloads: 27,156 |
| The Mohawk Valley - W. Max Reid
LibriVox recording of The Mohawk Valley, by W. Max Reid. Read by Roger Melin. An in-depth view and early history of the Mohawk Valley in upper New York state, covering the time period of 1609-1780. This historical piece covers that part of the Mohawk Valley between Schenectady and Rome, NY. The narrator hopes that the listener understands that a best effort has been made in pronunciation of many names within this work; particularly those of the Mohawks, Iriquois, Huron, and Mohicans; as well as ...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; New York State; History; Mohawk; Legends; Sir William Johnson; History; Joseph Brant; Guy Park; Schenectady; Johnstown; Amsterdam; Count Frontenac; Indians; Oriskany; Iriquois
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| Immortality and the Unseen World - W. O. E. Oesterley
LibriVox recording of Immortality and the Unseen World, by W. O. E. Oesterley. Read by JoeD. The full title of this book is Immortality and the Unseen World - A Study in Old Testament Religion. Oesterley describes the beliefs that pre-Christian Hebrews and Semites held regarding the afterlife and the immortal nature of humans. The nature, form and evolution of these beliefs are derived from the Tanakh (Old Testament), comparisons with the beliefs and mythologies of neighboring cultures, and arch...
Keywords: LibriVox; audiobook; mythology; religion; anthropology
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| A Popular History of the Art of Music - W. S. B. Mathews
LibriVox recording of A Popular History of the Art of Music, by W. S. B. Mathews. Read by Tony Oliva. Preface by W.S.B. Mathews: I have here endeavored to provide a readable account of the entire history of the art of music, within the compass of a single small volume, and to treat the luxuriant and many-sided later development with the particularity proportionate to its importance, and the greater interest appertaining to it from its proximity to the times of the reader.The range of the work ca...
Keywords: History of music; librivox; audiobook |
| More Bab Ballads - W. S. Gilbert
LibriVox recording of More Bab Ballads by W. S. Gilbert. Read by Graham Redman This is a subset of the second collection of Gilbert’s “Bab Ballads” – light verses poking fun at the life and people of his time in Gilbert’s unique “topsy-turvey” style. The epitaph on his memorial on the Victoria Embankment in London is “HIS FOE WAS FOLLY AND HIS WEAPON WIT”, an epitaph amply exemplified in these verses...
Keywords: librivox; audiobooks; poetry; ballads; humor
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| The Story of the Mikado - W. S. Gilbert
LibriVox recording of The Story of the Mikado, by W. S. Gilbert. Read by Noel Badrian. The Mikado is the ninth of the 14 Gilbert and Sullivan musical collaborations. It opened in 1885, had the second longest run for any work of musical theatre of the time, and remains the most frequently performed Gilbert and Sullivan. It was adapted as a children's book by W. S. Gilbert entitled The Story of The Mikado, which was Gilbert's last literary work (and published posthumously)...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; Gilbert and Sullivan; children; Japan
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| The Bab Ballads - W. S. Gilbert
Librivox recording of The Bab Ballads by W. S. Gilbert. Read by Graham Redman. The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before he became famous for his comic opera librettos with Arthur Sullivan. In writing the Bab Ballads, Gilbert developed his unique "topsy-turvy" style, where the humour was derived by setting up a ridiculous premise and working out its logical consequences, however absurd...
Keywords: librivox; audiobooks; poetry; Sir William S. Gilbert; verse; humor
Downloads: 31,812 |
| The Disagreeable Man - W. S. Gilbert
LibriVox volunteers bring you 26 recordings of The Disagreeable Man by Sir W. S. Gilbert. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 10, 2012. The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before he became famous for his comic opera librettos with Arthur Sullivan. In writing the Bab Ballads, Gilbert developed his unique "topsy-turvy" style, where the humour was derived by setting up a ridiculous premise ...
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; poetry; humor; politics; satire
Downloads: 687 |
| O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - W. S. Gilbert
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of O Hollow Hollow Hollow by W.S. Gilbert. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 8, 2012. Here is a poem by the "fleshly" poet, Bunthorne, from the opera Patience, by Gilbert and Sullivan. Who better to introduce it than the poet himself: BUNTHORNE. It is a wild, weird, fleshy thing; yet very tender, very yearning, very precious. It is called, "Oh, Hollow! Hollow! Hollow!" PATIENCE Is it a hunting song? BUNTHORNE...
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; poetry; humor; nature; satire
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| The Story of the H.M.S. Pinafore - W. S. Gilbert
LibriVox recording of The Story of the H.M.S. Pinafore, by W. S. Gilbert. Read by Noel Badrian. H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor, is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened in London, England, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest run of any musical theatre piece up to that time. H.M.S. Pinafore was Gilbert and Sullivan's fourth operatic collaboration and their first international sen...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; Gilbert and Sullivan; children; British Navy
Downloads: 462 |
| On a Chinese Screen - W. Somerset Maugham
LibriVox recording of On A Chinese Screen, by W. Somerset Maugham. This is a non-fiction collection of Maugham's observations of life in Asia in the early 20th Century. (Summary by BellonaTimes) For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org. M4B format available
Keywords: librivox; audio; travel; china; maugham
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| Rain - W. Somerset Maugham
LibriVox recording of Rain, by W. Somerset Maugham. Read by Bellona Times. One of Maugham's most famous short stories, Rain unfolds in a soggy tropical paradise marred by self-righteous hypocrites trying to force their moral beliefs on a girl who basically just wants to have fun. At a running time of approximately 1 3/4 hours, it is too long for inclusion in a Short Story collection.(Summary by Bellona Times) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds,...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; fiction; short stories; British literature; 20th century; post-WWI; faith; intolerance; desire; Samoa
Downloads: 23,632
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| The Moon and Sixpence - W. Somerset Maugham
LibriVox recording of The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham. Read by Barry Eads and Chip. The Moon and Sixpence is a 1919 short novel by William Somerset Maugham based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The story is told in episodic form by the first-person narrator as a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character, Charles Strickland, a middle aged English stock broker who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to become an artist...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; Gauguin; artist; leprosy
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| The Moon and Sixpence - W. Somerset Maugham
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| The Magician - W. Somerset Maugham
LibriVox recording of The Magician by W. Somerset Maugham. Read by Delmar H. Dolbier The Magician is a novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham, originally published in 1908. In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a caricature of Aleister Crowley, attempts to create life. Crowley wrote a critique of this book under the pen name Oliver Haddo, where he accused Maugham of plagiarism. Maugham wrote The Magician in London, after he had spent some time living in Paris, where he met Aleister Crowl...
Keywords: librivox; audiobooks; literature; fiction; novel; 1908
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| The Moon and the Sixpence - W. Somerset Maugham
LibriVox recording of The Moon and the Sixpence, by W. Somerset Maugham. Read by Termin Dyan. This Maugham novel is based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The story is told by the narrator as he gradually comes to know the main character Charles Strickland, a middle aged stock broker. We follow Strickland from the point where he abruptly abandons his wife and children to become an artist, through his life in Paris and Marseille to Tahiti, where he eventually dies of leprosy...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; Gauguin, artist
Downloads: 8,129
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| The Chronicles of Canada Volume 13: The United Empire Loyalists: A Chronicle of the Great Migration - W. Stewart Wallace
LibriVox recording of The Chronicles of Canada Volume 13: The United Empire Loyalists: A Chronicle of the Great Migration, by W. Stewart Wallace. Read by Roger Melin. Volume 13 of The Chronicles of Canada Series. This volume sheds light on the often misunderstood Americans who chose to remain loyal to the Crown of England during and after the American Revolution. While the vast majority of American writings which detail the Revolution paint the Loyalists (sometimes called Tories) in the most neg...
Keywords: libirvox; audiobook; Canada; history
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| Denslow's Three Bears - W. W. Denslow
Librivox, public domain recording of W. W. Denslow's The Three Bears, read by Denny Sayers. This version of the classic tale of the three bears has a heroine named Golden Hair. The jolly bears, instead of chasing her away from their home, come to live with her at Grandmother's house. The recording can be enjoyed by itself, or you can read along with the Library of Congress facsimile version from the International Children’s Digital Library: Here...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; children; story
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| The Monkey's Paw - W. W. Jacobs
Read by: Peter Yearsley, David Barnes, Cori Samuel, Jim Mowatt and Stuart Pyle. The Monkey's Paw was written in 1902 by W.W. Jacobs. It's a dark brooding tale which promises from the start that the light you see at the end of the tunnel is actually an oncoming train. Mr and Mrs White of Laburnum Villas step out toward that light by taking up the three wishes granted to the owner of the Monkey's Paw...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; horror; chiller
Downloads: 43,735 |
| Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - W.A. Neilson
LibriVox recording of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, translated by W.A. Neilson. Read by mj. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table. In the tale, Sir Gawain accepts a challenge from a mysterious warrior who is completely green, from his clothes and hair to his beard and skin...
Keywords: librivox; medieval; audiobook; chivalry; knight
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| Byways Around San Francisco Bay - W.E. Hutchinson
LibriVox recording of Byways Around San Francisco Bay by W.E. Hutchinson, in the public domain. The LibriVox catalog page for this work lists the LibriVox readers. "California, the land of sunshine and roses, with its genial climate, its skies as blue as the far-famed skies of Venice, and its pure, life-giving air, invites the lover of nature to take long tramps over hill and dale, mountain and valley, and to search out new trails in the rugged mountains." (Quote from section 2: Brook and Water...
Keywords: librivox; literature; california; nature; walking; guide
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| The Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B. Du Bois
LibriVox recording of The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B Du Bois read and performed by toriasuncle. The Souls of Black Folk is a well-known work of African-American literature by activist W.E.B. Du Bois. The book, published in 1903, contains several essays on race, some of which had been previously published in Atlantic Monthly magazine. Du Bois drew from his own experiences to develop this groundbreaking work on being African-American in American society...
Keywords: librivox; audiobooks; african-american; history; sociology
Downloads: 148,414
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| Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology - W.G. Aitchison Robertson
LibriVox recording of Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, by W.G. Aitchison Robertson. A 1922 source-book for British criminal pathologists, this will be of particular interest to fans of popular police forensics television shows, films, and murder mysteries.(Summary by BellonaTimes For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org. M4B format available
Keywords: Forensics; criminology; pathology; toxicology; science; Librivox; audiobook
Downloads: 10,722 |
| Far Away and Long Ago - W.H. Hudson
LibriVox recording of Far Away and Long Ago, by W.H. Hudson. William Henry Hudson (August 1841 - 1922) was an author, naturalist and ornithologist. Hudson was born of U.S. parents living in the Quilmes Partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, where he spent his youth studying the local flora and fauna and observing both natural and human dramas on what was then a lawless frontier.'Far Away and Long Ago' is a classic memoir of a boy, fascinated by nature, on the Pampas in the 19th century...
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; nature; memoir; childhood; South America
Downloads: 12,023 |
| The Abandoned Room - Wadsworth Camp
LibriVox recording of The Abandoned Room by Wadsworth Camp. Many murders are occurring in a secret room. Who will unravel its mystery? (summary by Nadine) M4B format available For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org.
Keywords: librivox; audiobooks; public domain; Wadsworth Camp; Camp; Carlos Paredes; Bobby Blackburn; Katherine Perrine; the Cedars; mystery; murder; abandoned room; Silas Blackburn
Downloads: 59,193
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| Adventures of Maya the Bee - Waldemar Bonsels
Librivox recording of The Adventures of Maya the Bee by Walemar Bonsels. Read by Betsie Bush. The Adventures of Maya the Bee is an exciting tale for children of all ages. Themes of growth and development of courage and wisdom are found, as well as the extreme joy and satisfaction that Maya experiences in the beauty of creation and all creatures. Her ultimate and innate loyalty to her Nation of Bees is acted out in the final heroic scenes...
Keywords: librivox; audiobooks; children; bees; animals; nature; adventure; folklore; fantasy
Downloads: 67,881 |
| The Science of Being Well - Wallace D. Wattles
LibriVox recording of The Science of Being Well, by Wallace D. Wattles. Read by Jill Preston. If you are seeking better health and ways to stay well…This book is for you! Wallace D. Wattles was an American author and a pioneer success new thought movement writer. His most famous work and first book is a book called The Science of Getting Rich in which he explains how to get rich. Additionally, In the Science of Getting Well, Wattles suggests the reader to think and ACT in a Certain Way...
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; advice; instruction
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| The Science of Getting Rich - Wallace D. Wattles
LibriVox recording of The Science of Getting Rich, by Wallace D. Wattles. Read by Diana Majlinger. Would you like to be rich? Yes? Well, who wouldn't.The Science of Getting Rich is a book written by the New Thought Movement writer Wallace D. Wattles. The book is still in print after almost 100 years. According to USA Today, the text is "divided into 17 short, straight-to-the-point chapters that explain how to overcome mental barriers, and how creation, not competition, is the hidden key to wealt...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; wattles; rich; advice; getting rich
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| The Science of Being Great - Wallace D. Wattles
LibriVox recording of The Science of Being Great, by Wallace D. Wattles. Read by Diana Majlinger. The Science of Being Great is the second book of Wattles' triology. In this volume he argues that the power of thought and positive self-esteem is the only true measure of a person's greatness. (Summary by Diana Majlinger)The Science of Getting Rich For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the Libri...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; Wattles; advice; self-help
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| Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens - Wallace Stevens
LibriVox recording of The Complete Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 1 of 2, in the public domain, read by Alan Davis-Drake. The LibriVox catalog page for this work has a link to the text source. A collection of Wallace Stevens poems written before 1923. Stevens trained to be a lawyer. Within eleven years after this series of poems were written, he was vice-president at the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company in Connecticut...
Keywords: librivox; literature; poetry; Alan Davis Drake
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| Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
Librivox recording of Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman. For more information on our readers, see our catalog page: http://librivox.org/leaves-of-grass-by-walt-whitman/ American poet Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, is a collection of poems notable for its frank delight in and praise of the senses, during a time when such candid displays were considered immoral. Where much previous poetry, especially English, relied on symbolism, allegory, and meditation on the religious and spiritual, Leaves of G...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; whitman; poetry; america
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| Longings for Home - Walt Whitman
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Longings for Home by Walt Whitman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 26, 2012. Born on Long Island, Whitman worked as a journalist, a teacher, a government clerk, and – in addition to publishing his poetry – was a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War. Early in his career, he also produced a temperance novel, Franklin Evans (1842)...
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; poetry; adventure; history; memoirs; nature
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| What think you I take my pen in hand? - Walt Whitman
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 different recordings of What think you I take my pen in hand? by Walt Whitman. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 29th, 2007. For more information on the readers, please visit the catalog page: http://librivox.org/what-think-you-i-take-my-pen-in-hand-by-walt-whitman/.(Summary by Karen Savage) For more free audiobooks, or to find out how you can volunteer, please visit librivox.org...
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; poetry
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| Dirge for Two Veterans - Walt Whitman
In celebration of Memorial Day in the United States, 2007, LibriVox volunteers bring you twelve different recordings of Dirge for Two Veterans by Walt Whitman. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of May 27th, 2007 (summary by Karen Savage). For more information on the readers, please visit the catalog page: http://librivox.org/dirge-for-two-veterans-by-walt-whitman/.(Summary by Karen Savage) For more free audiobooks, or to find out how you can volunteer, please visit librivox.org...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; poetry
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| Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
LibriVox recording of Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman, from the Gutenberg e-text, in the public domain. For information, see: http://librivox.blogsome.com
Keywords: Poetry; literature; audiobook; librivox
Downloads: 2,754
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| Warble for Lilac-Time - Walt Whitman
LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 different recordings of Warble for Lilac-Time by Walt Whitman. For more information on the readers, please visit the catalog page: http://librivox.org/warble-for-lilac-time-by-walt-whitman/. For more free audiobooks, or to find out how you can volunteer, please visit librivox.org. M4B format available
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; poetry
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| Specimen Days - Walt Whitman
LibriVox recording of Specimen Days by, Walt Whitman Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman's scrap book. It documents most of his life's adventures, especially his experience serving as a nurse during the Civil War and travelling around America. It is a book called Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman. M4B format available For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org.
Keywords: specimen; days: documents; whitman; non fiction; memoirs; librivox; audio books
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| A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman - Walt Whitman
Librivox's weekly poetry project for the week of December 4, 2005: A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman (from Leaves of Grass, Book 30). For more information on our readers, please visit the catalog page: http://librivox.org/a-noiseless-patient-spider-by-walt-whitman/ M4B format available For more free audiobooks in the public domain, and to find out how to become a volunteer reader, please visit Librivox.
Keywords: Poetry; literature; audiobook; librivox
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| The Wound Dresser - Walt Whitman
LibriVox recording of The Wound Dresser, by Walt Whitman. Read by R. S. Steinberg. The Wound Dresser is a series of letters written from the hospitals in Washington by Walt Whitman during the War of the Rebellion to The New York Times, the Brooklyn Eagle and his mother, edited by Richard Maurice Burke, M.D., one of Whitman's literary executors. (Summary by R. S. Steinberg) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if availa...
Keywords: Librivox; audiobook; letters; memoirs; Civil War; hospitals; war wounded; battle wounds; Union; nursing; male nurses
Downloads: 1,339
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| O Captain! My Captain! - Walt Whitman
Librivox's weekly poetry project for the week of February 19, 2006: O Captain! My Captain!, by Walt Whitman. In honor of President's Day, LibriVox brings you thirteen versions of O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman. This classic poem was written by Whitman following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. It appears in Leaves of Grass, Whitman's masterpiece of a poetry collection and is considered by many to be one of his greatest poems...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; poetry
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| An Old Man’s Thought of School - Walt Whitman
LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of An Old Man’s Thought of School by Walt Whitman. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 12, 2012. Whitman claimed that after years of competing for "the usual rewards", he determined to become a poet. He first experimented with a variety of popular literary genres which appealed to the cultural tastes of the period. As early as 1850, he began writing what would become Leaves of Grass, a collection of poetry which he would continue edi...
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; poetry; advice; instruction; philosophy; teen/young adult
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| Old Chants - Walt Whitman
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Old Chants by Walt Whitman. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 15, 2011. Walter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse...
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; classics (antiquity); history; instruction
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| Miracles - Walt Whitman
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 different recordings of Miracles, by Walt Whitman. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of March 4th, 2007. For more information on our readers, please visit the catalog page at: http://librivox.org/miracles-by-walt-whitman. For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org. M4B format available
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; poetry
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| Old Ireland - Walt Whitman
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Old Ireland by John Keats. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 1st, 2010. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org. M4B format available
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; poetry; philosophy
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| A Prairie Sunset - Walt Whitman
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of A Prairie Sunset by Walt Whitman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 28, 2011. Walt Whitman has been claimed as America's first "poet of democracy", a title meant to reflect his ability to write in a singularly American character. A British friend of Walt Whitman, Mary Smith Whitall Costelloe, wrote: "You cannot really understand America without Walt Whitman, without Leaves of Grass.....
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; poetry; nature; art
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